glaucoides - kumlieni

(last update: January 26, 2012)

Kumlien's Gull (kumlieni) 4cy, January 24 2012, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Picture: Bruce Mactavish.

Age 4cy: showing band on bill, brown wash over the lesser coverts and greater coverts.

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Iris amber brown in this individual. Upper tertials, and most of the covert panel showing adult-like feathers, with only few inner coverts with obviously barred pattern. P8-P10 and exposed part of P7 darker than central primaries. Note distinct white primary tips and thayeri pattern on underside of P10 in the far wing.